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GREENWOOD CARBON FIRISH - HENRY SYAZWENTON • BATHARINE ALDBOOTLFONS ARSKEY CBS. MARTIE

A Twentieth Century-Fox Picture

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Pulitzer Prize Play

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The Great DICTATOR

Produced, written and directed by CHARLIE CHAPLIN

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LONE BRITISH PILOT

GOES ON A MORNING PATROL!

FEBRUARY RAIN

A FIGHTER PILOT OF THE R.A.F., FLYING RECORD

ALONE OVER THE TEPELINI AREA IN AL- BANIA, SIGHTED FIVE ITALIAN FIGHTERS.

In his report on the Weather of February, the Director of the Royal Observatory says: - Febru-

He immediately engaged the enemy, ary 1st was fine and sunny, but shooting down three, the other two breaking the remainder of the month was off the combat.

This incident was reported

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dump and military barracks, ye: terday's R.A.F. Middle East, Bomber formatius also success- Headquarters communique, which fully attacked Berat.

Buildings says that bumber and lighter air-|were hit and large fires started. craft werd again busy on Satur-] Enemy positions near Buzi wer day in support of Greek any also attacked. operations in Albania.

It adds that at Valona bombs were dropped on an ammunition

GESTAPO AT WORK

Treatment accorded the people of Luxemburg by the German Civil Admin- istration is "disgusting," Grand Duchess Charlotte, exiled ruler of the little country, declared in an interview in Ottawa.

Her Royal Highness, who now is living near Montreal and has established her Government there, recently visited Ottawa.

Until recently, the Grand Duch- es, suid, she rece ved regular in- formacion about conditions in her country through a man who was able to make trips in and out of German occupied territory through France. Now, however, German authorit es had found out about The activities of her emissary and u hau been advised not to go 1

in the early days of the oc- cupation, she sa o, the German military authorities behaved in a "coniect" manner. but when they were succeeded by the Civil Administration and the Gestapo things Lecame much worse. The Grand Duchess expressed pleasure at the present attitude of her people. At first, she said, they could not understand why she und her family left. They thought if the ruling house had remained The Germans would not have troubled them.

"How they understand," she a'd. "They realise that I can do more for them outside."

"I will do whatever is best for my people," she said, when asked about plans for the postwar ог- ganisation of Europe. She said many persons were working on plans for a union of states which would provide greater security than in the past and still leave all countries with their independence.

ROAD-SWEEP BART CITED IN DIVORCE

SIR JOHN STUART KNILL, BART, WHO HAS BEEN A 485.- A-WEEK POSTMAN, A ROAD SWEEPER. A SMALL-PART FILM ACTOR. AND HAS RUN A BRIC-A-BRAC STALL AT THE CALEDONIAN MARKET, WAS CITED AS CORRESPON- DENT IN, AN, UNDEFENDED DIVORCE CASE AT LEWES AS- SIZES.

The petitioner was George Henry Foord, a former chef : and now an air raid warden, of Den- ton Road, Newhaven,

There were two children by the marriage. Foord disputed pater- nity of the third child..

Mr. Justice Hawke granted a decree Disi with custody of the two children and costs.

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alost continuously cloudy, with - frequent rain or drizzle; 13 days There were completely sunless. were a few brief spells of

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for the most part slightly above normal. A thunderstorm occurred on the 20th, and the last two days of the month were fORRY.

The mean temperature for

the month was 61.8 deg. F. against a Dealing with Italian East

normal of 59.0 deg A maxim Afrien, the communique continues: of 75 deg. was recorded on the Bomber anetaft attacked enemy; 12th, and a minimum of 49.9 deg. positions in the neighbourhood of Keren.

Another of our bombers at- tacked and machine-gunned two Caproni 133's at Alomata, on the Dessle Acmara road, and the enemy aircraft were burned out. Our aircraft then bombed and vehicles on the aerodrome and an machine-gunned motor transport

a road near the town.

From all operations our RIP- craft returned safely. Reuter,

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